I had to blow off some steam. I came in extra early to work to catch up some stuff and lost (a couple hours worth cuz I forgot to save) it when I went to print.

We have worked with our VAR on foreshortened dims and we do have a problem. In the meantime we have to find work arounds. Unfortunately we went back to 2016 but several projects and ECN's were done in 2018 before issue was discovered. Those drawings are just harder to read.

Alternately, if the file is an enormous assembly, the automatic backups without notification of such happening can unexpectedly bog down performance while that transpires, potentially over clicking in middle of a normal workflow, and inducing more instability.

If it takes 2 minutes to save when told to do so, it will take 2 minutes to auto-save too.

Everything is handled easy and fast when it's small. Make it huge and don't expect same performance.

It is true that they can be a hassle in very large assemblies. I wouldn't concider my assemblies very large as I've seen people who have floor layouts of their shops and those would take almost an hour to load and probably save too.

With that said, I'm working on a server, which I believe is not the best way to work for SolidWorks, and I have my back-ups saved locally. I've never really noticed the back-ups slowing me down but there are tons of times, like most people, where SolidWorks is doing something and I have no idea what it is. The back-ups that I do notice generally happen on drawings.

We are sorry to hear you are experiencing stability issues. We are starting a new program (Beta for now) where we review our forums and reach out to customers having issues to help connect them with their VAR.

I have reached out to your VAR, they will be proactively contacting you soon to work with you to troubleshoot your issue.

Try and provide some examples of your problems here. Not everyone understands entirely how SolidWorks works, there are many subtilities that can make your work a living hell. SolidWorks is listening, even tough sometimes it might not seem like it.

There is a big job to be done by schools to teach SolidWorks the correct way tough in my opinion.